Military  Service 
Compulsory  or  Volunteer? 


A discussion  of  methods  for  adequate 
organization  of  the  common  defense. 

Twenty- minute  addresses  by  men  of 
national  prominence. 

Obligation  of  Citizenship  to  the  Common 
Defense 

Military  Training  in  Public  Schools  and  in 
Land-Grant  Colleges 

Organized  Labor  and  Compulsory  Military 
Training 

Elements  of  Military  Systems  of  Great  Britain, 
France  and  Germany 

The  Organization  of  the  German  Army 

Political  and  Economic  Problems  Involved,  and 
Legal  Aspects  of  the  German  Military 
System 

The  Swiss  and  Australian  Systems  of  Military 
T raining 


Two  Meetings  Devoted  to  these  Subjects 

2.30  p.  m.  Compulsory  or  Volunteer  Military 
Training:  Fundamental  Principles  and 
Methods 

8. 1 5 p.  m.  The  Obligation  of  Citizenship  to 
the  Common  Defense 

THURSDAY,  MAY  18,  1916 

EARL  HALL,  COLUMBIA  UNIVERSITY 

117th  Street  and  Broadway 


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A mong  the  speakers  who  have  accepted  are: 

Hon.  William  E.  Borah,  United  States  Senator 
from  Idaho. 

Professor  Moritz  J.  Bonn  will  discuss  the 
political  and  economic  problems  involved 
in  the  German  Military  system. 

Hon.  Henry  Breckinridge,  former  Assistant 
Secretary  of  War,  will  speak  on  Universal 
Military  Service. 

Dr.  Theodore  N.  Christen,  former  officer  Swiss 
Army,  leading  expert  on  military  systems. 

Captain  Hecker,  of  the  German  Red  Cross, 
will  discuss  the  compulsory  system  in  vogue 
in  the  German  Empire. 

Mr.  Frederick  A.  Kuenzli,  President  The 
National  Defense  Institute,  and  formerly  a 
Lieutenant  in  the  Swiss  Army,  will  speak 
on  the  Swiss  Military  system. 

President  Alexander  Meiklejohn,  of  Amherst 

College. 

Mr.  Louis  W.  Stotesbury,  Adjutant-General  of 
the  State  of  New  York,  will  speak  on 
compulsory  training  under  State  auspices, 
and  the  place  of  the  State  militia  in  National 
defense. 

Mr.  John  P.  White,  President  United  Mine 
Workers  of  America,  will  present  the  views 
of  Trade  Unionists. 


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Col.  C.  DeWitt  Willcox,  U.  S.  Military  Academy, 
author  of  the  French-English  Military  Tech- 
nical Dictionary,  will  speak  on  the  French, 
English,  and  other  Continental  systems  of 
military  training. 

Mr.  Matthew  Woll,  President  of  International 
Allied  Printing  Trades  Association,  will 
speak  on  the  attitude  of  organized  labor. 

General  Leonard  Wood,  U.  S.  Army. 

Mr.  Eric  Fisher  Wood,  author  of  The  Note- 
Book  of  an  Attache  and  The  Writing  on  the 
W all , will  present  first-hand  observations  of 
Continental  military  systems  at  work  under 
war  conditions. 


Papers  will  be  submitted  for  publication  in  the 

Proceedings,  as  follows: 

Major  E.  N.  Johnston,  Corp  of  Engineers, 
U.  S.  Army,  on  The  Australian  System  of 
Universal  Training  for  Military  Defense. 

Dr.  Edmund  J.  James,  President  of  the  Uni- 
versity of  Illinois,  on  Military  Training  in 
the  Land-Grant  Colleges. 


Detailed  program  will  be  mailed  on  request. 

The  Academy  of  Political  Science 

Kent  Hall,  Columbia  University 


Telephone,  Momingslde  1400 


PROGRAM  COMMITTEE 


WILLIAM  L.  RANSOM,  Chairman 
FRANK  L.  BABBOTT 
CHARLES  A.  BEARD 
ROBERT  L.  BACON 
PETER  J.  BRADY 
IRVING  T.  BUSH 
VICTOR  J.  DOWLING 
HENRY  D.  ESTABROOK 
PAUL  U.  KELLOGG 
SAMUEL  McCUNE  LINDSAY 
HOWARD  L.  McBAIN 
GEORGE  A.  PLIMPTON 
THOMAS  REED  POWELL 
THEODORE  L.  ROUSSEAU 


EDWIN  R.  A.  SELIGMAN 


